Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is episode number 76. Thank you for joining us. I'm Brooke McCallory and I'm sitting next to my co-host, Benjamin.

Thank you very much. Now this episode is brought to you by James Squire, Jack of Spades Porter.

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Welcome to Wednesday afternoon.

The afternoon before this podcast is released.

We have left this little old host full to the last minute.

On purpose, though, we had originally planned for this episode to be a live Facebook video thing.

And as it turns out, our internet sucks.

And we don't have the upload speeds to actually be able to do that.

So while we work on that particular issue, we're just going to do a regular hostful episode,

albeit probably four or five days later than we normally would have done it,

and albeit with a beverage of our choosing in our hands.

Yeah, this is the live podcast when you're not having a live podcast.

It's too late to actually edit it.

Exactly. There's no editing to this podcast, so you're going having a live podcast. It's too late to actually edit it. Exactly.

There's no editing to this podcast.

So you're going to hear every long pause.

It's very good.

So yes, this is a hostful.

And before we get into that, why don't we talk about how we're feeling?

Let's check in right now.

Oh, okay.

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